Killed in Action
1st
Battalion: Battles of the Lys: minor operation near Merville
- 13082 Private Walter Joy CLEAVER, born Toddington, son of John and Emma of Rising Sun, Harlington (Merville Communal Cemetery Extension) his brother Sidney Charles was killed with 1st/5th Bedfords on 8th April
2nd
Battalion: Battles of the Lys: the canal bank near Ypres, shelling
- 3/7572 Private Joseph Frank PEACOCK-NEWPORT, 22, son
of Charles and Ella Newport of Archway House, Gentleman’s Row, Enfield
[Middlesex] (Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery)
- 240785 Private William Horace SUMMERS, ex-20515 Cheshire Regiment, resided Coseley [Staffordshire] (Tyne Cot Memorial)
Died of Wounds
7th Battalion
- 40696 Private William BROOKS, 21, ex-38150 Leicestershire
Regiment, son of Richard Henry and Mary Ann Brooks of Leicester, husband
of Mary Ann of 36 Middle Street, Mill Lane, Leicester (Crouy British
Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme)
- 30923 Private Frederick Thomas HICKS, 24, foster son
of Ann Lungley of Wigborough Road, Peldon [Essex] (Longueau British
Cemetery)
- 17427 Private George PEACOCK, 27, son of Joseph and
Elizabeth Peacock of Husborne Crawley, resided Woburn Sands
[Buckinghamshire], enlisted October 1914 at Woburn from the Duke of
Bedford’s estate (Crouy British Cemetery, Crouy-sur-Somme)
No comments:
Post a Comment